We decided to leave. I asked Abu Dania and Marwan to go to the car with Michael while I said good-bye to the host’s wife. She was sitting in the next room watching TV with her four small children. When I stuck my head in, I realized they were watching videos showing attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and Shia militiamen holding the severed heads of what they said were Sunni men in Iraq. “You’re letting them see all this?” I asked her. “Yes. They need to see who the enemies of Islam are,” she answered. “The earlier, the better.”
